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A criminal matter is when a person A does specific physical actions to person B. It usually requires fairly solid proof and serves the purpose of preventing the

A criminal matter is when a person A does specific physical actions to person B. It usually requires fairly solid proof and serves the purpose of preventing the perpetrator of committing further physical acts. The forced arbitration applies to the civil cases where a group of persons sues the employer seeking damages for creating a "hostile environment" based on feelings and other subjective parameters. It usually ends up with a settlement enriching the plaintiffs, and more corporate paperwork in the style of "we paid $1M for a mandatory course telling our employees that groping is bad" to defend from further lawsuits. It's similar to McDonalds forced to print "caution: the beverage may be hot" on the coffee cups after losing $2.7M to a person that got burned by one [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

lesuorac 5y ago
Did you mean to link to a different article? The wikipedia entry on that case doesn't say at all that "McDonalds forced to print "caution: the beverage may be hot" on the coffee cups". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
drekk 5y ago
She was permanently disfigured by those burns. The coffee was 82-88C or 180-190F. If you went to a diner you'd get coffee 20C colder. And it would still be hot. McDonalds shouldn't have to print a warning, I agree. They should not be allowed to keep their coffee at temperatures that would cause someone to need skin grafts after three seconds of direct contact. It was also settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, something the link in your comment mentions. A judge reduced the 2.7 million in punitive damages to less than half a million before the parties settled out of court. It's a marvel corporate capture of our media is so complete that people are still going to bat for McDonalds over a case so old it could vote. Especially when their reasoning for keeping the coffee at that temperature is to save a couple of pennies.

lesuorac 5y ago

Did you mean to link to a different article? The wikipedia entry on that case doesn't say at all that "McDonalds forced to print "caution: the beverage may be hot" on the coffee cups". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

drekk 5y ago

She was permanently disfigured by those burns. The coffee was 82-88C or 180-190F. If you went to a diner you'd get coffee 20C colder. And it would still be hot. McDonalds shouldn't have to print a warning, I agree. They should not be allowed to keep their coffee at temperatures that would cause someone to need skin grafts after three seconds of direct contact. It was also settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, something the link in your comment mentions. A judge reduced the 2.7 million in punitive damages to less than half a million before the parties settled out of court. It's a marvel corporate capture of our media is so complete that people are still going to bat for McDonalds over a case so old it could vote. Especially when their reasoning for keeping the coffee at that temperature is to save a couple of pennies.